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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Auditing is a project-level feature, available in the </span><span class="f_BodyText">Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, System Engineering and Ultimate editions</span><span class="f_BodyText">, that enables model administrators to record model changes in Enterprise Architect. By enabling this option, you can view information on changes such as:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">Who</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> changed an element</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">How many</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> elements they changed</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">When</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> they changed the data</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">What</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> the previous values were, and</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">What type</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> of elements they changed.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Auditing does not record changes to RTF Templates, Model documents, Baselines or Profiles.</span></p>
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<td width="955" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:955px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">If your site runs separate editions of Enterprise Architect, when Auditing is turned on in a project any Desktop or Professional edition users are locked out of the project. To restore access, turn Auditing off in the project from a Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering or Ultimate edition instance of Enterprise Architect.</span></p>
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<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Auditing Quickstart</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To quickly enable auditing and see it in action, see <a href="auditing_quickstart.htm">Auditing Quickstart</a>.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Audit Settings</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Once auditing is enabled within a project, you have a variety of options available for customizing what is recorded by the audit. See <a href="auditing_settings.htm">Audit Settings</a> for more information on the different settings available.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">The Audit View</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To view what has been recorded by the audit, use the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="the_audit_view.htm">Audit View</a></span><span class="f_BodyText">, which provides an interface to everything recorded by auditing.</span></p>
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<td width="955" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:955px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">If security is enabled, you must have </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="permissionlist.htm">Audit View</a></span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> permission to display data in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Audit View</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText">.</span></p>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can also obtain a snapshot of selected items in the model, using the <a href="model_views.htm">Model View</a> facility. In the Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering or Ultimate editions of Enterprise Architect, this facility enables you to automatically generate this snapshot at intervals and, if there are changes in the items collected by the defined search, to trigger a notification to you of such changes. This enables you to <a href="monitor_events.htm">monitor work flow</a> and other events of concern to you.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">RTF Report</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can generate an RTF report that includes the audit history information for the selected element or package, by choosing the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">basic + audit</span><span class="f_BodyText"> <a href="rtfdialogoptions.htm">RTF template</a>.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Audit History</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Using Auditing, you can track changes to an element or connector over time. However, enabling Auditing also enables an </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="audit_history_tab.htm">Audit History</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> tab in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Output</span><span class="f_BodyText"> window, which summarizes all changes made to the selected element or connector.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Performance Issues</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">By enabling auditing on a project, you increase the time taken for most actions. For most modeling tasks, this increase is insignificant. However, there are some instances where the difference is more substantial. See <a href="auditing_performance_issues.htm">Performance Issues</a> for more information.</span></p>




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